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Reflections on US Assistance to Kenya's Health Sector
More Than 1,000 Sites in Kenya Receive FHI Support to Prevent Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV
More on FHI/Kenya's PMTCT Programs:
FHI Celebrates Scale-Up at Kenyan Medical Center JUNE 2009 — Bomu Medical Centre in Mombasa, Kenya, started out in 1979 as a small dispensary housed in a single-story building. Thirty years later, BMC celebrated the grand opening of a newly constructed wing, a necessary expansion to keep up with the growing number of patients coming to the center for high-quality, low-cost healthcare. The opening of the new wing also marked FHI's 10-year involvement in BMC's efforts; with funding from USAID, FHI worked with the Mkomani Clinic Society to implement an HIV prevention, care, and treatment program in BMC, emphasizing access and affordability for the poor and underserved in and around Mombasa. More on FHI/Kenya's Systems Strengthening Programs:
Building Sustainable Public Health Programs in Kenya
FHI Awarded APHIA II Project in Rift Valley and Coastal Province
Nuru ya Jamii Prevents Children from Becoming Orphans FHI is pioneering an innovative, family-centered approach to preventing children from becoming orphans. It is called Nuru ya Jamii (Light of the Family in Kiswahili). The one-year-old initiative provides vulnerable children and their HIV-positive parents and caretakers with wide-ranging care and support services. This will enable the adults to live longer, benefitting parents and children alike.
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Integrating Family Planning and HIV Services Proves Feasible FHI is working with the MOH to integrate family planning and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services. An FHI study found that provision of family planning services during VCT was feasible and acceptable to providers and clients and that integration did not negatively affect VCT quality. Now, work is underway to strengthen the family planning counseling that VCT providers offer clients and to increase uptake of contraception by women who wish to space or limit births. Community-based Distribution of Contraceptives Can Serve Unmet Need Community-based distribution of contraceptives can serve unmet family planning needs of women in rural communities and isolated city neighborhoods. FHI is promoting the provision of Depo Provera, an injectable contraceptive, by community health providers and working with the MOH to change policies and update service delivery guidelines to reflect research on this successful service delivery model. FHI Promotes Evidence-Based Decisions in Health Programming FHI is helping the Kenyan Ministry of Health's Division of Reproductive Health increase its institutional capacity to manage research and to use data to develop evidence-based reproductive health programs and guidelines.
A Dialogue with Matatu Transport Workers- Formative Research Informing APHIA II Interventions in Kenya's Rift Valley
APHIA II Baseline Behavioral Monitoring Survey Report: Coast--Rift Valley 2007
It's Time: Reaching All Children with Pediatric HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment (Brochure on FHI's work in pediatric aids, 1.3 KB)
FHI's strong partnerships with U.S. and host-country governmental agencies, international NGOs, universities, and local and faith-based organizations play a vital role in our high-quality research and programs.
FHI's office in Kenya is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page. |
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SEPTEMBER 2009 — Last month the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy visited Kenya to observe how US investments in health are being implemented. FHI President Peter Lamptey, MD, DrPH, and fellow commissioners met with US and Kenyan officials, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, and beneficiaries of US Government assistance. Dr Lamptey posted his reflections on US assistance to Kenya's health sector on the 
JUNE 2009 — FHI/Kenya has reached an important milestone: the number of hospitals, health centers, and dispensaries it supports across the country to implement services that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) has topped the one-thousand mark. Between April 2008 and March 2009, 221,965 pregnant women were tested for HIV at FHI-supported facilities and 10,339 were found to be HIV-positive. Of these women, 80 percent received antiretroviral drugs, as did over 65 percent of their newborn babies. 
AUGUST 2009 – FHI/Kenya is providing practical, evidence-based solutions for critical health issues through collaborative programs. (August 2009 
NOVEMBER 2006 – The U.S. Agency for International Development has selected FHI to lead implementation of the AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance Program (APHIA II) in Kenya's Rift Valley and Coast Province from 2006-2009. The program will help Kenyans lead healthier lives by easing access to an increased range of quality health services. The U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Michael E. Ranneberger, officially launched the program in Mombasa, Kenya, on Sept. 26.
AUGUST 2009 — The USAID APHIA II Coast and Rift Valley projects aim to increase service access and use while promoting healthier behaviors among most-at-risk groups and the general population. This document details findings from formative research conducted to inform intervention design. 